A weekly show interviewing leaders in their fields, authors, renowned professors, inventors, innovators, change-makers and mavericks to inspire, educate and inform the business world and the curious. This Global show speaks of something greater beyond innovation, disruption and technology. It speaks to the human need to learn: how to adapt and love a changing world. It embraces the spirit of constant change, of staying receptive, of always learning. The show exists to enable people to be fully informed to lead better lives, lives packed with meaning.

Today’s show examines the assorted ways we mislead ourselves every single day, a psychology course with all the boring bits taken out.

Prepare for a whirlwind tour of some of the latest research, fused with a healthy dose of humour.

You’ll discover just how irrational you really are, which delusions keep you sane, how to boost your productivity, and why you’ve never kept a New Year’s resolution.

We welcome author of “You Are Not So Smart: Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, Why You Have Too Many Friends On Facebook And 46 Other Ways You’re Deluding Yourself” and host of the You Are Not So Smart Podcast, David McRaney

Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed and paralyzed by a stroke.

Today, he is the director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University, of which the Dalai Lama is a founding benefactor.

As a child, his life was at a dead end until at twelve he wandered into a magic shop looking for a plastic thumb. Instead, he met Ruth, a woman who taught him a series of exercises to ease his own suffering and manifest his greatest desires.

Ruth’s final mandate was that he keep his heart open and teach these techniques to others. She gave him his first glimpse of the unique relationship between the brain and the heart.

Doty would go on to put Ruth’s practices to work with extraordinary results. He achieved power and wealth that he could only imagine as a twelve-year-old.

However, he neglects Ruth’s most important lesson, to keep his heart open, with disastrous results. A spectacular charitable contribution that will virtually ruin him, changed his life.

Part memoir, part science, part inspiration, and part practical instruction, Into the Magic Shop shows us how we can fundamentally change our lives by first changing our brains and our hearts.

Weaving together philosophy, social science and neuroscience research, personal anecdotes and dialogues, A Child at Heart takes a radically different approach to the traditional boundaries between childhood and adulthood to reveal how rather than lapse into adulthood, we can achieve what the Greeks of old call arete—all-around excellence—when we look to children and youth as a lodestar for our development.

Childhood is our primary launching pad, a time of life when learning is more intense than at any other when we gain the critical knowledge and skills that can help ensure that we remain adaptable. This book weaves together the thinking of philosophers from across the ages who make the unsettling assertion that with the passage of time we are apt to shrink mentally, emotionally, and cognitively. If we follow what has become an all-too-common course, we denature our original nature—which brims with curiosity, empathy, reason, wonder, and a will to experiment and understand—and we regress, our sense of who we are will become fuzzier and everyone in our orbit will pay a price.

Mounting evidence shows that we begin our lives with a moral, intellectual, and creative bang, and in this groundbreaking, heavily researched, and highly engaging volume, today’s guest makes the provocative case that childhood isn’t merely a state of becoming, while adulthood is one of being, as if we’ve “arrived” and reached the summit. His life-changing proposition is that if we embrace the defining qualities of youth, we’re not destined to become frail, dispirited, or unhinged, we’ll grow in a way defined by wonder, curiosity, imaginativeness, playfulness, and compassion—in essence, unlimited potential.

We welcome the founder of Socrates Cafe, Maverick philosopher And Author of and the focus of today’s show “A Child at Heart: Unlocking Your Creativity, Curiosity, and Reason at Every Age and Stage of Life” – Christopher Phillips

“Those who say you cannot guarantee the achievement of goals are those who do not know how to do it.” Frans De Groot

Businesses are on the lookout for the one methodology that singlehandedly helps to achieve their goals, and definitively address issues such as “what needs to done” and “which activities to avoid”.

BITSING is a scientifically proven methodology, which enables you to predict results by using facts in order to be 100% certain of achieving goals. This episode enables factual insight into (positive) financial returns, in advance of executing strategies accordingly.

BITSING can be applied by the biggest multinational to the smallest startup. The 7 laws in this book guide you through the process of improving your business strategy.

We discuss:

How to be Unbeatable

Realise Effective Campaigns

Ensure That You Reach Your Goals

How to get that “first date” with your customer

How to get a commitment from your customer

Author and founder, Frans De Groot explains how this methodology works and how to implement it in your own business. By using examples, illustrations, and insights, Frans provides multiple entry points for readers who want to execute the BITSING strategy accordingly.

As a result of working closely with several universities, the methodology is scientifically validated, in addition to its proven performance within numerous organisations and businesses.

Frans shares how some have experienced exponential growth and reached the magic level of 300%.

This episode offers advice, tools, and direction in what is required in your organisation to achieve goals.

The methodology increases efficiency without sacrificing jobs and has even helped to stimulate employment, including recruiting top talent. BITSING has also boosted employee performance, changed stakeholder behaviour, and optimised work-life balance.

“The legalisation of marijuana is not a dangerous experiment – the prohibition is the experiment, and it has failed dramatically, with millions of victims all around the world.” ― Sebastián Marincolo

The work today’s guests is based on a vast body of knowledge and represents a new methodology for researching the potential of the marijuana high. It is informed by the philosophy of mind, the cognitive sciences, psychology, chemistry, neurobiology and a systematic analysis of hundreds of anecdotal reports. It blends hard science with the warmth of human experience and a deep appreciation for the complexity of human consciousness.

While medical cannabis is capturing most of the attention at the moment, the vast majority of users – an estimated 85% – are interested in the high; first and foremost.

Our guest wants to know how the high can spur creative thinking, deepen empathic understanding, help with many illnesses, enhance the ways we pay attention, or bring hidden memories to the fore. Cannabis has always been able to do some of these things, Rather than dwelling on the supposed dangers of cannabis – none of which have ever been proven – he’s asking a far more intriguing question: How can we use it to enhance our existence?

Prohibition prevents independent, expert information on cannabis biology, strains, genetics and growing from entering the mainstream media. Furthermore, many users have even been actively misled by criminal dealers who take advantage of prohibition and the lack of knowledge on the side of consumers to sell them cheaply produced, low-grade marijuana – sometimes laced and weighted with dangerous substances – under the name of superior strains.

It is for these reasons we welcome today’s guest: philosopher, consciousness researcher, creative director, photographer and author of “High – insights on Marijuana” and “What Hashish Did To Walter Benjamin” Sebastian Marincolo PhD.

For centuries, people have searched for ways to access inspiration and streamline content creation. Whether praying to the muses or shutting themselves into dark rooms, authors use trial and error to find the methods that work for them.

What if we could apply cognitive science principles to determine our own perfect methods for creativity and productivity?

We welcome the author of “Writing to Be Understood, Subscription Marketing, The Workplace Writer’s Process and the focus of today’s episode“The Writer’s Process: Getting Your Brain in Gear”, Anne Janzer

The key to success in sales and marketing often lies in the art of persuasion, but in a world of distractions, it can be challenging to capture the attention of your audience and tap into their decision-making process.

Today’s guest is the founder of SalesBrain, the world’s first Neuromarketing agency, built upon two decades of research on the effect of advertising and sales messages on the human brain to create a breakthrough persuasion strategy. Based on the latest research in neuroscience, media psychology and behavioural economics, today’s guest makes understanding the complex science of persuasion simple.

Many of us feel uneasy with the lack of recognition that our community, city, region or country receives internationally and with the stereotypes and outdated clichés by which “outsiders” define us. This has probably been the case for as long as man exists, but in today’s world with its global connections and social media, it is becoming more apparent, more relevant and more frustrating; to citizens generally, but in particular to policymakers, public administrators, leaders and representatives in public, private and civil society sectors.

Why this is so and what to do about it is the focus of today’s show. We will discuss the topic of community reputation. For communities to be admired, they need a sense of belonging and purpose in order to do amazing imaginative things befitting their character while captivating others.

Our guest is an international adviser, scholar, speaker and author of “Imaginative Communities: Admired cities, regions and countries” Dr Robert Govers

We discuss:

Place reputation, how it impacts other’s view of us and our view of ourselves

“Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.” – Napoleon Hill. People can be influenced by how others speak about them and then it can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Globalization: In 2000, 2/3s of the worlds online population was from North America and Europe. In 2010 2/3s of the worlds online population was from elsewhere

How countries, regions and cities can no longer compete based on functional characteristics like accessibility, service levels and other advantages

How interconnectedness and globalisation have led to homogeneity so imagination can be a competitive advantage?

“Imagination is its own form of courage” – Frank Underwood, House of Cards

How it takes courage to paddle your own canoe, just like business, just like life

Kazakhstan and the “Stan Effect”

Collaboration as a key to gain maximum benefit from imagination

The story about Oslo’s future library

“The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”

Estonia as an imaginative community

The little-known country of Bhutan and its gross national happiness

Most of our listeners are in the USA so let’s share the imaginative virtues that founded America?

Communicating communities, you can’t advertise this, it is pull and not push

Communities addressing existing clichés and stereotypes?

Finland (hello to our listeners on Business FM) where they developed their own set of emojis

Communities are built on mental Models: Schema and Schemata

How we limit information processing and selective learning by applying five filters?

How mainstream Media also plays a huge part

The 2006 World Cup hosted by Germany and Germany’s goal to change its reputation to be one that is much more friendly than perceived

How marketing requires reputation and reputation leads to sharing of great experiences

Like any strategy, we tend to focus on short-term returns on investment. This is a long game you want perceptions to seep into the consciousness of outsiders

More about Robert here: https://rgovers.com/ and https://www.imaginativecommunities.com/contents/

Philosophers, theologians, artists, and boy bands have waxed poetic about the nature of love for centuries.

But what does the brain have to say about the way we carry our hearts?

As technology advances to allow us a more focused examination of the intricate dance our brains do with our environment, we can use science to shed new light on humanity’s oldest question, “What is this thing called love?”

Today’s guest dived into the latest neuroscientific research concerning love and sex and what it really means for the way we approach our relationships.

Her bookThis Is Your Brain on Sex: The Science Behind the Search for Love/Dirty Minds: How Our Brains Influence Love, Sex, and Relationships asks age-old questions such as:

What parts of the brain are involved with love?

Is there really a “seven-year itch”?

Why do good girls like bad boys?

Is monogamy practical?

How thin is that line between love and hate?

Do mothers have a stronger bond with children than their fathers do?

How do our childhood experiences affect our emotional control and who is at risk for love addiction?

Researchers have found that the accelerated pace of modern office life is taking its toll on productivity, employee engagement, creativity and well-being. Faced with a relentless flood of information and distractions, our brains try to process everything at once increasing our stress, decreasing our effectiveness and negatively impacting our performance.

Ironically, we have become too overworked, unfocused, and busy to stop and ask ourselves the most important question: What can we do to break the cycle of being constantly under pressure, always-on, overloaded with information and in environments filled with distractions? Do we need to accept this as the new workplace reality and continue to survive rather than thrive in modern day work environments?

What if your organisation’s culture could be fuelled by creativity and productivity? It is possible to train the brain to respond differently to today’s constant pressures and distraction?

The secret to dealing with life’s interruptions is incredibly simple: Give each distraction just “one second’s” time, mindfully. Many companies turn to mindfulness to help their workers become more attentive and less distracted.

Today’s guest has worked with a multitude of fortune 500 countries in over 22 countries. He is the founder and managing director of the Potential Project and the focus of today’s show is his wonderful book “One Second Ahead”.

We can do more with our lives. We all know it, we all wish for it, but just how to do it—that eludes us. As one man describes his life, “In the morning I can’t wake up, in the day I am bored, in the evening I am tired, and at night I can’t sleep.” Even if we want to change, we’re not sure which path to take, and if we do find our way, we are usually too emotionally wounded, physically unhealthy, or mentally stressed to take the steps we know would transform our desperate life into a meaningful one.

Many of us long to change this troubled world, but the one thing we have the most influence over is the person looking back at us in the mirror every morning. We live in fear of terrorism, but in actuality, the most devastating terrorism comes from within as we continue to sabotage ourselves. A neglected body, chaotic mind, or wounded heart will prevent us from fulfilling our destiny as much as any outside enemy.

We all know that we deserve and are meant to live an inspired life that rises above mere existence, today’s guest shares some ways we can live the life we have always known we can live, a life with meaning, a life full of love, a life worth breathing.

We welcome global speaker, teacher, and author who acts as a bridge to connect people with their inner axis and thereby build better relationships with others, Max Strom

“A mind that is stretched to a new idea never returns to its original dimension.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

This episode aims to introduce practical instruction for mastering the Wheel of Awareness, a life-changing tool for cultivating more focus, presence, and peace in our lives.

We will explore:

The science that underlies meditation’s effectiveness

How to harness the power of the principle “Where attention goes, neural firing flows, and neural connection grows.”

How developing a Wheel of Awareness practice to focus attention, open awareness, and cultivate kind intention can help us grow a healthier brain and reduce fear, anxiety, and stress in our lives.

Whether we have no experience with a reflective practice or are an experienced practitioner, we are going to explore this hands-on guide that will enable you to become more focused and present, as well as more energized and emotionally resilient

Our guest is the author of 4 New York Times bestsellers and I’m sure today’s book Aware will be a fifth. His books include:

The Developing Mind

Parenting from the Inside Out

The Mindful Brain

Mindsight

The Mindful Therapist

A Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology

The Whole-Brain Child

Brainstorm

No-Drama Discipline

Mind

The Yes Brain

And the focus of today’s episode:

Aware The Science And Practice Of Presence—A Complete Guide To The Groundbreaking Wheel Of Awareness Meditation Practice

“I struck a match and I didn’t know how much tinder was around” – Keith Conners

At the current rate, in 2017, half a million American children will be taken to their doctors and be newly diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Many of them will receive thoughtful and reasonable evaluations and benefit from medication. Another sizable number will be seen by casual clinicians who either bypass the child’s real problems or give in to his frustrated parents and teachers.

Some of the adolescents will be faking ADHD just to get Adderall for themselves or others. Whatever the actual breakdown, there will be 500,000 new diagnostic visits, millions of follow-ups, tens of millions of pills, and hundreds of millions in sales. Lots of business for everyone.

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) will soon be the most frequently diagnosed chronic condition among children, surpassing asthma. Yet research shows that ADHD can’t be that prevalent.

On this week’s show, we talk to the author of ADHD Nation, acclaimed New York Times journalist, Pulitzer prize nominee Alan Schwarz.

Alan takes us behind the scenes to tell the full story of this billion-dollar industry.

We talk about the history of ADHD, the history of diagnosis, the marketing of drugs and the mishandling of diagnosis. We also discuss the fake diagnosis problem where pressurized college students are taking ADHD drugs as amphetamines to get through high-pressure college exams.

If we depend on market research to dictate business decisions, today’s guest explains how this is a big mistake. Market research cannot predict buying decisions because it focuses on the conscious mind, like most of our daily decisions in life and business. we make them unconsciously.

With corporate risk aversion at an all-time high, it’s no surprise that marketing professionals increasingly reach for market research to support their strategies. Then, if products and marketing campaigns fail, they blame the research.

While this episode is invaluable for all business owners and marketers – it will equally help us understand any customer better, but also understand ourselves.

Today’s guest has had no hesitation in calling out a multi-billion dollar industry for its frailties and suggesting a better way. We welcome consumer behaviour expert and author of the best-seller ‘Consumerology: The Truth about Consumers and the Psychology of Shopping’, Philip Graves

We talk: Focus groups versus real life situations?

Why Asking Is Fruitless

Brand Fails such as New Coke and The Post Office rebranding as Consignia

How brands like Red Bull succeeded in face of bad focus group research

Most of us struggle with our attention, but more important is that we struggle to improve that attention. We welcome Joanna Jast author of “Laser-Sharp Focus. A No-Fluff Guide to Improved Concentration, Maximised Productivity and Fast-Track to Success”.

“A great many college-educated, white-collar workers are going to discover that their jobs, too, are squarely in the sights as software automation and predictive algorithms advance rapidly in capability.” ― Martin Ford

Martin Ford is a futurist and the author of the New York Times bestselling “Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future” (winner of the 2015 Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award and translated into more than 20 languages) and “The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future,” as well as the founder of a Silicon Valley-based software development firm. He has over 25 years experience in the fields of computer design and software development. He holds a computer engineering degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and an MBA degree from the University of California, Los Angeles.

We talk:

The perfect storm of technology, climate change and technological unemployment

The automation wave

Automation replacing human brains as well as brawn

Exponential Growth and Moore’s Law

Universal Basic Income

Job Stagnation

Economic Singularity

Technological Unemployment

His upcoming book ‘Architects of the Artifical Intelligence Revolution’

Dr Larry Rosen is the best-selling author of multiple books including ones we will talk about today: iDisorder and The Distracted Mind, which touch on the disorders we are experiencing, amplified by technology and why we are behaving the way we do.

We talk:

The state of distraction

The increasing anxiety experienced

The multitude of scientific studies on attention spans

iDisorders and how anxiety has surpassed depression and the no.1 disorder for the youth

From Buddhist monks to the early stages of psychology, attention has been deemed a vital element of success.

In a world vying for our attention, if we can become masters of this attention, we can lead happier more present lives.

Dr Joseph Cardillo is this week’s guest. He is a martial artist, doctor and author of: ’Body Intelligence – Harness Your Body’s Energies for Your Best Life’, ‘The Five Seasons’, ‘Your Playlist Can Change Your Life’, ‘Be Like Water’, ‘Bow to Life’ and the focus of today’s show Can I Have Your Attention? How to Think Fast, Find Your Focus and Sharpen Your Concentration’.

We explore some of the attention building exercises and processes outlined in his book and how we can reset our increasing attention deficit. We discuss how we can maximise our attention at work, in key moments where we are about to lose our mind.

We discuss how we can give our children the tools for better sleep as well as ourselves. We touch on how we can be victims of unintentional bias. Finally, Joseph emphasises the merits of mediation and the myriad benefits it can give us.

We speak with Andrew Keen, the pioneer of calling into question the impact of technology and the resulting new business models on society.

He has been called a luddite and a technological Antichrist for calling out such concerns.

Today, no-one calls him that today.

He is the author of the fantastic books:

The Cult of the amateur

Digital Vertigo

The Internet is Not the Answer and the focus of our chat:

“How to Fix The Future”

Andrew’s book “How to Fix the Future” outlines a map of how we might approach the future of humanity amidst a world of ai, technology, algorithm and tech behemoths.

Andrew looks at how humanity has overcome huge change in the past and how we can use what we have learned in the past to fix the future.

We explore:

Legal regulation, where innovation and regulation are symbiotic. Andrew discusses some of the exemplars of regulation and how we can learn from them. We also discuss governments driving change such as Estonia, Singapore and even China.

Innovators and innovation diving change

The role of consumers and social responsibility, where consumers shape society with their needs.

Philanthropists, non-profits and committed change makers like Edward Snowden and you Andrew Keen!

Education and our roles as parents, teachers and educators of every kind.

Chris Baréz Brown is the author of multiple best sellers including Shine: How to Survive and Thrive at Work, Wake Up!: Escaping a Life on Autopilot, Free, Love your work and love your life and How to Have Kick-Ass Ideas. Chris is also the founder of Upping your Elvis.

In this great chat, we discuss every aspect of creativity from personal energy to organisational energy. From personal purpose to aligning the purpose of the organisation. We talk how our brains can be our enemy and our liberators. We touch on how we can enable our inner genius and once again be confident in being who we truly are. Chris is determined to inject energy and more humanity back into business and into life.

You can find out more about Chris and his books here: https://uppingyourelvis.com/books

The app is here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wake-up!-app/id1147350401?ls=1&mt=8

What other ways could people have escaped from the Titanic?
How can we unlock talent in gifted people who are framed as less?
We explore how we can be “fixed” in our mindsets and how there are techniques to unlock their thinking. We discuss a new kind of school and approach with Eagle Hill School. We discuss how AI and humanity can co-operate for even better results than working separately.

Harvard Business Review magazine article: Find Innovation Where You Least Expect It
https://hbr.org/2015/12/find-innovation-where-you-least-expect-it

Lukas tells us of his journey and how he had the radar on for an innovation. He discusses his mindset and how he made it all happen. http://www.coindrum.com/

Founder of Cubii Shivani Jain joins us to tell us how Cubii can help us. She tells us how ignorance can be an advantage when starting out and how her co-founders and her benefitted from the maker community and the help of others to forge Cubii.

For years, we’ve been told how ‘sitting is the new smoking’ and that prolonged sitting can increase your risk for cardiovascular disease, varicose veins and high blood pressure and cholesterol.

On this week’s show, we talk to musician Peter Himmelman, author of the best-selling “Let Me Out”, a book which aims to liberate creativity and potential in individuals and organisations.

Peter Himmelman is an American singer-songwriter and film and television composer from Minnesota, who formerly played in the Minneapolis indie rock band Sussman Lawrence before pursuing an extensive solo career. Peter is also the founder of Big Muse, a company which helps individuals and organizations unlock their creative potential.

Peter is also the author of the best-selling “Let Me Out”, a book which aims to liberate creativity and potential in individuals and organisations.

On this week’s show we talk about the tools that can unleash potential, about the way corporations shackle their talent and how we as individuals can take control of their lives to release their potential.

You can find out more about Peter here: http://www.peterhimmelman.com/home.php and here: http://www.bigmuse.com/
You can find his book here: http://a.co/akxm8VO and here: www.letmeoutbook.com/buy
You can find his albums here: https://itunes.apple.com/ie/artist/peter-himmelman/id910855

“For those seeking inventive ways to awaken their own sleeping muses, Let Me Out delivers as promised.” – Publisher’s Weekly

Thoughts on education, parenting, society, business and life.
This week’s guest is Keynote Speaker and author of ‘Excellent Sheep’ William Deresiewicz.

Bill tells us of a gaping void we have in our midst. Children are being raised to do what they think their parents want more than what they want themselves. A huge number of third level students are afraid to study what they want and instead chose subjects that are “accepted” and “expected”.

We talk how this originates in the home with “Tiger Parents”, we discuss the problems of pressure and aimlessness on the campuses and the so-called “Stanford Duck Syndrome”.

We discuss the true meaning of diversity and how corporations can harness it for the future.
We discuss the inequality of the education system and how it is no wonder that GroupThink is alive and well. Bill also informs us of how presidential candidates all follow the same path of education.

Finally, Bill offers some sound advice to break the cycle so we stop producing ‘Excellent Sheep’

You can find out more about William, including how to book him for Keynote talks here.
http://www.billderesiewicz.com/
You can find Bill on twitter here :Tweets by WDeresiewicz

Future of education, William Deresiewicz, GroupThink, Future of Work, Excellent Sheep, parenting, society, business and life.

Professor Naftali Tishby is a professor of Computer Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a Global leader in machine learning research and computational neuroscience and his numerous ex-students serve at key academic and industrial research positions all over the world.

In this week’s show, Naftali discusses his breakthrough in understanding how machines learn. He calls this the “bottleneck technique”.

During our chat, we draw parallels in how we humans learn and the lessons we can draw from his findings in how education might work in the future.

We go off on a tangent after we discuss how part of learning is forgetting. We explore the gifts of ADD and ADHD (Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and how if understood early people can harness the gifts and thrive.

We discuss the future of humanity, the history of machine learning and the present of education.

It is a truly fascinating listen.

Some Interesting points:

4.21 – Then there was a mystery, what can be learned and how can they do it?

4.53
3 different directions:
How do we understand the behaviour or networks
What are the limits? What can be learned? – How do they do it? How much power needed etc.
How does the brain learn, animals and human

39.00
The machine learns like a human does?
Is it a framework to learn more?

41.00
The ADD gift

53.00
The future of Education?

1:01 Ai and the future?

1.06 Humanity must evolve with Ai

Also see:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-theory-cracks-open-the-black-box-of-deep-learning-20170921/

Maura Nevel Thomas is an expert on the topics of productivity, attention management, and work-life balance. She is a speaker, trainer, and author of Work Without Walls and Personal Productivity Secrets. You can find out more about Maura here maurathomas.com.

We talk about our waning attention spans, how we are training ourselves to have less focus. In the current shift to a knowledge worker economy, where we do most of the work with our brains, we must protect those brains. Deep work is essential and so is the ability and environment to perform it.

We talk about the workplace, open space working, email culture and personal hacks to overcome email fatigue, which accounts for half of our workdays every day. We talk about leadership understanding the outputs of knowledge work and telecommuting and what it means to the workplace and leadership.